California Quotes - Page 13

• Among many U. S. wine consumers, California holds a strong position.

  Pete Rose

  Strong, Wine, Consumers

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• When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in them. I almost always sat in the far back of the auditorium so I could read the newspaper. I remember that I stayed late one day to ask the professor a question, and when I got up to him, all I could think to myself was, 'So this is what the professor looks like.

  Stephan Pastis

  Thinking, Class, Uc Berkeley

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• I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

  Vikram Seth

  Dream, Drinking, Purpose

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• In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.

  Ernest Gaines

  Soul, Louisiana, Stories

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• It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth.

  Pete Wilson

  Technology, Growth, Needs

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• California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But California in the sense of the West. The old West where Manifest Destiny was an almost palpable notion that was somehow tied to the land and the climate and one's own family-an unspoken belief that was passed down to children in stories and sayings.

  Michiko Kakutani

  Children, Destiny, Land

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• For quite some time, I have wanted to live on the central coast of California and get more involved at Cal Poly, my alma mater; spend more time with my wife and sons; travel to interesting parts of the world; and something I have wanted to do for years-- finish the requirements for my pilot's license.

  Peter Oppenheimer

  Son, Years, Wife

  "Apple’s Peter Oppenheimer to Retire at the End of September", www.apple.com. March 4, 2014.

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• I find that in California I can't find guys that have enough energy. They play a little bit and that's about it. They play less. If I start a tune and then the pianist has to solo, I am looking to everybody to get to a certain climate and then I come back in while the energy is up high. Somehow that doesn't happen.

  Pharoah Sanders

  Music, Play, Guy

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• My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

  Hilda Solis

  Mother, Father, Years

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• But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.

  Kenneth Lay

  Important, Causes, Economy

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• But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.

  Kenneth Lay

  Enron

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• Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.

  Herb Ritts

  Growing Up, Light, Texture

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• I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.

  Herb Ritts

  Art, Growing Up, New Experiences

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• Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later

  Michael Medved

  Pain, Winning, Race

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• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life Besides, perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California).

  Anne Lamott

  Block, Writing, Voice

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.28, Anchor

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• As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.

  Kenny Guinn

  Doors, Pay, Way

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• I’m searching for some exit poll data from California. I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Data, Black

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• California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

  Paul Mazursky

  New York, Islands

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• So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

  Gray Davis

  Firsts, Flaws, Plant

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• Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.

  Catherine Crier

  Years, Twenties, Firsts

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• With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

  Sally Kirkland

  Art, Light, Ministry

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• I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

  Sally Kirkland

  Art, School, Alliances

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• I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

  David Talbot

  Dream, War, Teenager

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• Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers from New York to California brought that pressure in abundance.

  Ford Frick

  Baseball, New York, Moving

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• I'm in California a lot; I go overseas sometimes and I meet more Hells Angels than other Angels do.

  Chuck Zito

  Angel, Sometimes, Hell

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